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October 29, 2007
Evil clown
I saw this at the Wal*Mart while doing some Halloween shopping, and I just had to buy it. It's so cucui!
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The other addiction
Someone posted a potential game on Rondaks in the new World of Darkness for Changeling: the Lost. I knew they were going to put it out, but this was the first I'd heard of it actually being out. (Because it's pointless to pay any attention to "Coming in XX" announcements when they always turn out to be dementedly optimistic.) Needless to say, this means I had to find a copy for myself.
It's bitchin' so far. Much darker than the original Changeling - mainly because instead of being exiled fae, you play a mortal that was kidnapped by the fae and now has returned to the mortal world somehow, but changed. I've only gotten a short way into it (not counting the necessary quick skim to find the obvious differences, of course) and I am entirely impressed. I may even join the posted game just to see if it's worth my time.
But get this - after I picked it up from the book desk (cuz I couldn't just find it on the shelf, I had to order it) I went to see if they had anything else interesting, and I managed to find a used copy of Demon: the Fallen from the old WoD. I had skimmed it some before, but didn't want to blow a bunch of cash on a book I would probably never get to use. I just love finding things with a big sticker on them that says Used. So very handy. I managed to get that nearly $30 book for just under $6.50. Is that out of control or what?
So now I have two big hardback rulebooks to pore over for the next couple weeks or so, which means my evil brain may have new ideas bubbling in it soon. Maybe a touch frustrating, considering how fucking difficult the gaming urge is to fulfill anymore, but I still love the feeling of a great plot coming together in my head.
Filed under "Head games" by damyano at 09:58 PM | Comments (0)
October 28, 2007
All manner of visitors
We got to welcome a whole handful to Muleshoe this weekend. The Tornado and her beau dropped by on fri for the last leg of their big tour of the continental US. Mostly a sedate visit, they definitely needed to get a rest in (and some tacos from Leal's) after driving across the state to get here. Had a nice time and did some cookout and a couple rounds of bocce on sat before they had to move on along to get home by tue.
We had our professor friend come along on sat just as the two of them were getting ready to get on the road. More sedate weekend happenings really - just visiting and relaxing. And he just got back from Guatemala, so the hubby and I got to have the weekend hearing tales of our guests' travels. No, we hardly go anywhere.
But the big surprise was on sat, when we took the Tornado to peep out the dairy over next to the ponderosa place. Not only did we get to see them do the milking thing, we also got to watch a baby calf being born. It was a remarkably non-fwaga experience, even if the guy had to get the chains and drag the poor critter out. Now the hubby wants to get another baby calf for me to bottle feed. Ech.
Filed under "Living in Texas" by damyano at 10:30 PM | Comments (0)
October 25, 2007
The horrors of drugs
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Filed under "Brain candy" by damyano at 11:12 AM | Comments (0)
Warn those you love
Don't let your friends experience the shame and horror of a tripod that won't say no.Filed under "Brain candy" by damyano at 08:51 AM | Comments (0)
October 16, 2007
Yay!
I haven't seen the Halloween remake yet, but I'm terribly curious about it. Now it turns out that there is a Hellraiser remake in the works. Color me excited.
Filed under "Brain candy" by damyano at 03:50 AM | Comments (1)
Screwy Karma
Okay, get this. The hubby managed to get a day or two overdrawn on the vacation thing. These things happen. Afterwards, his boss decides to send him one of those passive aggressive type computer notes. Now I understand that being the boss you have to do that sort of thing, but the way he goes about it is kind of unnecessarily assy. Then, on Friday, karma comes around in one of those lose-lose fashions. See, said boss is a worse procrastinator than I could ever be. So bad, in fact, that he needed some help getting some work done before the October deadline. The deadline that comes after the deadline for late returns, which comes after the most common deadline in the business - April 15th. Yeah, that far behind.
And who does he go to for help? Why, the only person in the office who is likely to go out of his way to bust his ass simply because that is the way to get the job done. And his incentive was an extra week off, which has to be used by the end of the year, at the time of the year when time off is rare because tax season is ramping up. So the poor hubby had to drag his ass to the office to do work on the weekend, meaning that by Friday he will have worked 12 full days in a row. Now that is some bullshit right there. But it looks like we're either having a long Thanksgiving break, or we may end up using up the time down in Mineral Wells helping RAM out on account of he broke his foot. Either way, it will be a well earned break.
Filed under "Living in Texas" by damyano at 02:00 AM | Comments (0)
October 15, 2007
Retarded Sims2 commentary
I'm sorry if this hurts your brain. Yes, it is entirely stupid.
[damyano] sometimes I wonder about the motives some of these people have with making sims skins. they make lava demons and bloody zombies and rock stars
[damyano] and yet, you put them in the game, and they putter around the house and make mac and cheese
[damyano] ooooo, scary lava demon, corrupting souls while he sits and watches the food network
[pris] h
[damyano] I'm just dying to see naruto go to work as a dishwasher
[damyano] my life won't be complete until I see a vampire arguing with his neighbor over the weather
[BearAZ] you mean, the zombies don't even eat brains?
[damyano] no, they eat cereal and toaster pastries for breakfast
[damyano] or, if they're poor zombies and can't afford a stove, they have to drink instant breakfast from a can
[damyano] maybe it's brain flavored
[damyano] raisin brain
[damyano] cuz you gotta keep your zombie regular
[BearAZ] lol
[BearAZ] well, that's assuming they poop
[damyano] nothing worse than a zombie with irritable bowels, esp when his neighbor is munching on them
[BearAZ] I don't think they do
Filed under "Conversation pieces" by damyano at 05:58 AM | Comments (0)
Strange memequiz
I popped over to TheFrog's place cuz it's been way too long since I've peeped her out, and I saw this weird quiz thing. Her result is really fuctup. Mine, however, is terrible accurate.
| You Are Apple Cider |
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Filed under "Questionable behavior" by damyano at 04:32 AM | Comments (0)
Feeling snarky
I've had it stewing in my head for a couple days. So far I've resisted posting it because it just didn't seem worth bothering to type up. I mean, it's just the usual snippy bullshit that runs through my head when someone gets on my nerves.
But you know what, it might be funny.
[Note, there has been an edit, if yer interested]
A) Dude, I'm not gonna touch your food. Get the fuck over it. In fact, anything in regards to you I have no interest whatsoever in touching. There is no chance you're going to catch the gay from me, cuz I don't want any of what you're serving today, or any day. And if you're gonna get all bent out of shape because I ducked in real quick to grab a bite for myself, remember this - I helped bring that food to you, bitch.
B) And while we're on the subject of catching the gay - other dude, who thanks god that he's not queer, I thank your god that you aren't queer too. Because I don't want to have to chase your sad ass away from my door every morning, listening to you beg "Oh daddy please I need you! I'm so empty without you daddy, please fill me. Oh please please PLEASE!" Really, it's demeaning. I can't be your pony every weekend, I just couldn't stand the crinkling of the bag every damn time. So thank you white jesus, thank you for not making that redneck peckerwood queer.
C) No, I don't want to play with your bird. At first I thought maybe of darting you for 'research purposes,' but you know, you did kind of come off as creepy. Or maybe I just hallucinated that. I still don't want to play with your bird.
D) On those mornings when I really feel shitty - you know, I've been sick, or maybe I stayed up waaaay too late smoking that crazy hippie weed, and I'm all unkempt and crusty and have to grope around for my glasses so I can see my way to take a piss - on those days, right at that moment, I am still hotter than you are on your best days. And believe me, I'm not exactly purty on my best days, so baby you are downright harmful on the eyes. Get the fuck over yourself and maybe someone will actually like you enough to touch your peepee once in awhile.
E) I swear, if I have to hear one more cheesy brag story about you and your amazing sexual prowess, I am going to barf down your back. It's just so nasty.
[Edit - somehow I forgot one, and I just had to add it in]
F) Okay, let me get this straight - you chat me up out of nowhere, no provocation whatsoever, and you want to know what I look like. I'm not going to pretend that this isn't some cheesy prelude to cybering, but I'm still polite enough to at least provide you with the obligatory profile link. And yet this is not enough for you - you "simply can't be bothered, mate" to do a double click on a fucking link? That's too much for you to manage? Right. I'm sorry, but you've just graduated from mildly annoying cyber goon to completely too stupid for me to continue chatting with. Buh-bye now.
Filed under "Bitchy rants" by damyano at 03:35 AM | Comments (1)
October 09, 2007
Because he's awesome, that's why
Kevin Smith on Letterman, being all cool and stuff. Gotta love this guy.
Filed under "Brain candy" by damyano at 03:41 AM | Comments (0)
The addiction returns
I've had The Sims 2 hanging around on my shelf for about a year now, unplayed until I got this new machine. I was a bit worried that all the new bells and whistles would make this new Sims experience not quite what I was expecting. And I was right - and yet, entirely pleased.
Unfortunately, my starter sim is a whore. He wants to WooHoo everyone he meets. Currently he is having an affair with his boyfriend's father. Somebody call Jerry Springer. It was funny at first when I saw that he wanted to kiss or make out with most sims he met - then he decided that having a little WooHoo in bed wasn't enough, he wanted WooHoo in public. (And you have no idea how annoyingly difficult that was to manage...) Was that enough? Oh nooooo, not in the least. Now he wants to WooHoo at least 3 different sims, and he is often quite afraid that his advances will be rejected.
It's hilarious.
So I started up a second set - this one a remake of the brother and sister Cingle family I made for Sims 1. This time the game actually recognizes that they are siblings, so I don't have to deal with the accidental messiness of incestuous lust I had to last time. They aren't fighting over any potential loves - but that has more to do with them being far too busy trying to make enough money to get their house in order. I spent most of their starting cash on the house itself and they had to live for a few days doing the obsessive handwash dance at the sink because they couldn't afford a shower. I only just barely got them a stove to go with the fridge and a table and chairs so they wouldn't have to stand around eating. Being poor sucks.
Here's the thing that frustrates the shit out of me though. There's this new thing where occasionally while the sim is at work he'll get a Chance Card. Basically it gives you a quick scenario at work, and you get a couple choices. I never win. It's pissing me off, because I've gotten like six or so of them, and every motherfuckin' one results in something bad. That's just ridiculous! I mean, statistically speaking I have to pick one right once, at least by now. I'm getting suspicious that they are all fail/fail scenarios and someone is just fucking with me. Bastards.
I've only spent a short time doing the obsessive downloading thing. Since I only have the basic game there are a lot of extras around that I can't use yet. And the Sims site has precious little to offer anyway. Mainly I just want a few new things to put on community lots so the stores will be more interesting, and maybe a few more wardrobe choices. Also, it would be nice if the folks making skins and heads weren't such beardophobes, because I really get tired of looking at a bunch of clean-shaven baby faces all the time. Yes, I want some bearish sims, tyvm.
So there ya go - my little personal soap opera obsession has started yet again. Maybe one of my sims will get abducted soon and I'll have something interesting to share.
Filed under "Brain candy" by damyano at 01:56 AM | Comments (1)
October 04, 2007
A little bit more than expected
Okay, so I ended up taking an extra weekend out for Faire. These things happen. The bad thing - I missed the hubby's birfcake (which he prefers actually, but I wanted to give him a little of the same torture I tend to get on mine), the good thing - getting to sit and soak in the extra goodness that is Faire.
But there's more...
The first half of the trip was down South, of course, where I got to do the giant going away party for the Tornado. Huge event, as usual, and with only minimal planning. In fact, it was pretty much a pot luck event, more or less, and the only real work I had to help out with was some of the pre packing packing. I ended up getting so loaded that I was passing out, so I just grabbed a blanket and found some place to crash around midnite-ish. I think. I was too fuctup to really know what the time was. Which was the plan, actually.
After that there was a quick family trip in, which was quite nice, but nothing really remarkable to write about. I only managed the one day, since everything got all crammed into such a small time, but I'm glad I got the one day at least.
Then I made the huge mistake of not getting a flight up North. For some idiotic reason I was under the impression that Greyhounding up would be a good idea. It wasn't. I ended up getting stranded in LA due to their horrible incompetence and the hubby had to get me a flight out of the Bob Hope airport up to San Jose. Should have just gone and done that in the first place, but I'm stupid. We won't be making that mistake ever again. Greyhound can go fuck themselves.
Nevermind that noise though. Faire was a blast. Camping out next to the crew, waking up and crawling out of the Winnebago every morning to say good morning to trees and hills and the whole Faire experience. So awesome. I could see living there for a couple months doing the Faire thing. Met a few new and tremendously cool people, got to drink and smoke myself silly, and had the fun, but frustrating experience of being among quite a good many woofy men. Gotsta love the vice action.
Of course it couldn't be that simple though. The first weekend, which was supposed to be the only one, got rained out on Saturday. It was a bit of a bummer at first, but then all the Faire folk, about half of whom had gotten into costume before the rain killed it, decided to do what comes naturally. Drinking, carousing, running amok. Some of those poor people started drinking hard quite a bit earlier than they usually do and some ended up regretting it a bit when Faire opened on Sunday. Me, I'm just glad I didn't have to work.
So by the time Wednesday rolls around, Lazlo decides to say exactly what was on my mind - why not stay for another weekend? That was the straw, actually, cuz I was at that point right at the balance between stay or go. So a second weekend just had to happen, which means more drinking, smoking, carousing, running amok, and all that good stuff. Hell, even worked a couple hours at Cannonade. Now that's a complete Faire experience.
But that's all done with, I'm home now. I have yet to actually decide whether or not I want to jump ship from Southern to Northern for my Faire needs. Irwindale is just taking way too long to make Faire into what it was meant to be, and I just don't have the patience for it when what I want is just a couple months later and higher up the coast. Really, the only thing that keeps me hanging on to Southern Faire so tightly is being able to visit family and friends in Rialto while I do it. That is something I don't want to lose.
Filed under "Places other than Texas" by damyano at 02:01 AM | Comments (0)